I WRITE to concur with your reader who last week praised your article explaining some recent developments in the town.

Until publication, I had mistakenly assumed Cheshire County Council had built the smallest bus stop in the world, at the end of Bexton Lane.

I was pleased to find it was in fact a lay-by for police with speed cameras - badly needed on such a dangerous bend.

Perhaps your next investigation could look at what is to be done about King Edward Road?

Traffic heading towards the roundabout is currently being corralled very quickly into one lane after going through the traffic lights.

But these new lane markings suddenly stop and are completely at odds with the old lane markings, which are still clearly visible and encourage drivers coming from the roundabout to drive headlong at on-coming traffic.

To this hazardous stretch you can add those motorists who insist on creating two lanes of traffic while approaching the roundabout, endangering schoolchildren and pensioners on the zebra crossing, and who then cut up motorists coming off the roundabout into Manchester Road.

Yet while all this is happening, the pavement adjacent to King Edward Road - surely the widest anywhere in the town - remains blissfully free of pedestrians.

Couldn't the county council consider widening King Edward Road to two proper lanes in both directions, with clearly-marked filter lanes for those approaching the roundabout?

Or at the very least, finish off the job they have started.

HELEN GOLDSMITH

Beeston Drive

Knutsford